From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Childs Subject: Re: [PATCH] pypxeboot bootloader Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:09:23 +0000 Message-ID: <45DAE4F3.5040103@cs.tcd.ie> References: <45CB335C.1090809@cs.tcd.ie> <8A87A9A84C201449A0C56B728ACF491E04F4CA@liverpoolst.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk> <45CB517D.2010809@cs.tcd.ie> <20070220095340.GA823@york.uk.xensource.com> Reply-To: Stephen.Childs@cs.tcd.ie Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070220095340.GA823@york.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Tim Deegan Cc: Ian Pratt , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Tim Deegan wrote: > At 16:36 +0000 on 08 Feb (1170952573), Stephen Childs wrote: >> I've attached a fresh patch that addresses this and the other issues you >> raised, Tim. > > Thanks. That looks much better -- I think we should use mkstemp for the > config files too, if possible. OK I will try and have a look at that (or you're welcome to!) > Is udhcp still actively maintained? I wonder if we can get the > mac-address patch in upstream; otherwise we might have to bring the > client source into our tree. I've had no response to a patch I submitted and the last release was in 2002 so maybe we will have to do that for now. > The other option (and it may end up being necesary to address Ian's > point about physical NICs) would be to steal the guest's vif for the > dhcp'ing, since we know the guest won't be using it yet. I haven't > looked in detail at the plumbing of that, though. That sounds like a better solution in the long-term. Hopefully the existing approach already provides enough functionality to be useful to people in the short-term though. Stephen -- Dr. Stephen Childs, Research Fellow, EGEE Project, phone: +353-1-8961797 Computer Architecture Group, email: Stephen.Childs @ cs.tcd.ie Trinity College Dublin, Ireland web: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Stephen.Childs